Richard Boudreaux

Madrid Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal.

Richard Boudreaux is The Wall Street Journal’s bureau chief in Madrid, with responsibility for coverage of Spain and Portugal. He previously was a reporter in the Journal’s Moscow bureau, covering Russia and other republics of the former Soviet Union. From Moscow, he also traveled to cover breaking news in Israel, the Palestinian territories and Libya.

Before joining the Journal in 2010, Mr. Boudreaux was a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and before that, for the Associated Press, in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. During his career, he has won the Overseas Press Club award, Columbia University’s Maria Moors Cabot Award for Latin American coverage, and the Inter American Press Association award.

Mr. Boudreaux has an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Articles by Richard Boudreaux

The winner of Israel's parliamentary election won't necessarily be the leader of the party that gets the most votes. Here's how the multiparty system works to select a prime minister and some possible outcomes of Tuesday's vote.

A judge in Portugal questioned former Prime Minister José Sócrates to determine whether to charge him with tax fraud, corruption and money-laundering in a probe that could hurt his Socialist Party ahead of next year’s elections.

Portugal’s former prime minister, José Sócrates, spent a second night in detention after a criminal court judge questioned him in an investigation of suspected tax fraud, corruption and money-laundering.

Spanish fans reacted to the World Cup champion's elimination with astonishment. In the Carabanchel district in southern Madrid, streets were dead silent at 2100 GMT, right after the end of the match, in which Spain was defeated by Chile, 2-0. This was a strong contrast with complaints and commentary coming from all directions after La Roja was trounced 5-1 by...

Collectively, the three cities bidding to host the 2020 Summer Games—Madrid, Tokyo and Istanbul—have been rejected by the International Olympic Committee seven times over the past 20 years. And that's the good news.

Rosalía Mera rose from a teenage seamstress to one of the wealthiest women in the world as co-founder of Inditex, the Spanish clothing retail giant behind fast-fashion pioneer Zara. Ms. Mera died Thursday at age 69.

Spain's prime minister said he had erred in trusting the former party treasurer now at the heart of a widening corruption investigation but denied any wrongdoing and again rejected the opposition's call for him to resign.